The affair was thick with sinister suggestions.

And yet, the doctor recalled an expression of the girl's: that it was not a dissipated face, only troubled.
The whole affair interested him deeply.

That was one of the compensations for having consigned himself to this part of the world.

Over here, there was generally some unusual twist to a case.
He would pull this young fellow back; but later he knew that he would have to fight the boy's lack of will to live.

When he recovered his mental faculties, he would lie there, neutral; they could save him or let him die, as they pleased; and the doctor knew that he would wear himself out forcing his own will to live into this neutrality.